He is
begotten to a new hope of life. St. Peter thus writes: "Blessed be the
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant
mercy hath begotten us again unto a hope of life by the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and
undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are
kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be
revealed in the last time". (1 Peter 1:3-5) The inheritance to which
Honest Heart is now begotten is an incorruptible inheritance, which is
the divine nature. This means that if he is faithful unto death,
faithful to his part of the contract, he is certain to be born upon the
divine plane, for the reason that Jehovah is always faithful to his part
of the contract; and so Jesus says: "Be thou faithful unto death and I
will give thee a crown of life".--Revelation 2:10.
[336]Any one thus presented by Jesus to the Father, Jehovah, justified,
accepted and begotten, is designated in the Scriptures as a new
creature. "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are
passed away; behold, all things are become new." (2 Corinthians 5:17)
There is now a newness of life, which does not result from being
transferred to another climate, but from being given a new dominating
factor in our lives, namely, the will of God.
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